In March of 2015, Italian artist Rosa Barba presented The Color Out of Space, a meditative science-fiction film, crafted from images taken through the telescope at Rensselaer's Hirsch Observatory, and projected on the facade of the EMPAC building.

"The scale of EMPAC itself is so remarkably detailed and carefully engineered as to be essentially unparalleled outside of Asia. A perfect juxtaposition of art and science..." Read the full feature story in I Care If You Listen.